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第101章 Castles and Culture(2)

A bystander was painfully wounded in the thigh with a buckshot,and another was wounded in the arm.Four other men had their clothing pierced by buckshot.The affair caused great excitement,and Gay Street was thronged with thousands of people.

General Mabry and his son Joe were acquitted only a few days ago of the murder of Moses Lusby and Don Lusby,father and son,whom they killed a few weeks ago.

Will Mabry was killed by Don Lusby last Christmas.Major Thomas O'Connor was President of the Mechanics'National Bank here,and was the wealthiest man in the State.--ASSOCIATED PRESSTELEGRAM.

One day last month,Professor Sharpe,of the Somerville,Tenn.,Female College,'a quiet and gentlemanly man,'was told that his brother-in-law,a Captain Burton,had threatened to kill him.

Burton,t seems,had already killed one man and driven his knife into another.The Professor armed himself with a double-barreled shot gun,started out in search of his brother-in-law,found him playing billiards in a saloon,and blew his brains out.

The 'Memphis Avalanche'reports that the Professor's course met with pretty general approval in the community;knowing that the law was powerless,in the actual condition of public sentiment,to protect him,he protected himself.

About the same time,two young men in North Carolina quarreled about a girl,and 'hostile messages'were exchanged.

Friends tried to reconcile them,but had their labor for their pains.

On the 24th the young men met in the public highway.

One of them had a heavy club in his hand,the other an ax.

The man with the club fought desperately for his life,but it was a hopeless fight from the first.A well-directed blow sent his club whirling out of his grasp,and the next moment he was a dead man.

About the same time,two 'highly connected'young Virginians,clerks in a hardware store at Charlottesville,while 'skylarking,' came to blows.Peter Dick threw pepper in Charles Roads's eyes;Roads demanded an apology;Dick refused to give it,and it was agreed that a duel was inevitable,but a difficulty arose;the parties had no pistols,and it was too late at night to procure them.One of them suggested that butcher-knives would answer the purpose,and the other accepted the suggestion;the result was that Roads fell to the floor with a gash in his abdomen that may or may not prove fatal.

If Dick has been arrested,the news has not reached us.

He 'expressed deep regret,'and we are told by a Staunton correspondent of the PHILADELPHIA PRESS that 'every effort has been made to hush the matter up.'--EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLICJOURNALS.]>ladies are trained according to the southern ideas of delicacy,refinement,womanhood,religion,and propriety;hence we offer a first-class female college for the south and solicit southern patronage.'

What,warder,ho!the man that can blow so complacent a blast as that,probably blows it from a castle.

From Baton Rouge to New Orleans,the great sugar plantations border both sides of the river all the way,and stretch their league-wide levels back to the dim forest-walls of bearded cypress in the rear.

Shores lonely no longer.Plenty of dwellings all the way,on both banks--standing so close together,for long distances,that the broad river lying between the two rows,becomes a sort of spacious street.A most home-like and happy-looking region.

And now and then you see a pillared and porticoed great manor-house,embowered in trees.Here is testimony of one or two of the procession of foreign tourists that filed along here half a century ago.

Mrs.Trollope says--

'The unbroken flatness of the banks of the Mississippi continued unvaried for many miles above New Orleans;but the graceful and luxuriant palmetto,the dark and noble ilex,and the bright orange,were everywhere to be seen,and it was many days before we were weary of looking at them.'

Captain Basil Hall--

'The district of country which lies adjacent to the Mississippi,in the lower parts of Louisiana,is everywhere thickly peopled by sugar planters,whose showy houses,gay piazzas,trig gardens,and numerous slave-villages,all clean and neat,gave an exceedingly thriving air to the river scenery.

All the procession paint the attractive picture in the same way.

The deions of fifty years ago do not need to have a word changed in order to exactly describe the same region as it appears to-day--except as to the 'trigness'of the houses.

The whitewash is gone from the negro cabins now;and many,possibly most,of the big mansions,once so shining white,have worn out their paint and have a decayed,neglected look.

It is the blight of the war.Twenty-one years ago everything was trim and trig and bright along the 'coast,'just as it had been in 1827,as described by those tourists.

Unfortunate tourists!People humbugged them with stupid and silly lies,and then laughed at them for believing and printing the same.

They told Mrs.Trollope that the alligators--or crocodiles,as she calls them--were terrible creatures;and backed up the statement with a blood-curdling account of how one of these slandered reptiles crept into a squatter cabin one night,and ate up a woman and five children.The woman,by herself,would have satisfied any ordinarily-impossible alligator;but no,these liars must make him gorge the five children besides.

One would not imagine that jokers of this robust breed would be sensitive--but they were.It is difficult,at this day,to understand,and impossible to justify,the reception which the book of the grave,honest,intelligent,gentle,manly,charitable,well-meaning Capt.Basil Hall got.Mrs.Trollope's account of it may perhaps entertain the reader;therefore I have put it in the Appendix.

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